By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — It’s hefty tank on two big tires, and it’s my marvelous form of transportation.
This Surly Pugsley took me from Raiders stadium, which is prepping for two nights of country music, to the Strip where the A’s are building a $2 billion stadium to the Sphere where security broke my locks and confiscated my bicycle two years ago to Las Vegas’ downtown.
No e-this, or e-that. No bike lanes. No paved trails.
Just pedaling after 9 AM on a Thursday morning and using a Pugsley mountain bike to navigate the famed Strip corridor to Circa hotel-casino and Container Park in downtown Las Vegas.
The traffic was light and I followed my own route of sidewalks and road pavement.
Allegiant Stadium:
A’s stadium construction site:
This Matt from Philadelphia on Tropicana Avenue. I met Matt, who is walking from the airport to MGM Grand where he wants to pick up the monorail to his hotel. I interviewed Matt about the fact he’d love for the airport and the LVCVA to have a walking route and trail from the terminal to Tropicana Avenue. Yes, people walk from the airport to the Strip and it would make a great news story for any TV station or local newspaper.
It was about 9:45 AM when I was biking on the Strip. I biked it for only a small stretch before returning to the side streets.
I did visit T-Mobile Arena, which has amazing bike racks practically next to the arena and ticket windows. What contrast to the Sphere, where bicycling is banned on what security calls “the campus.” The security was outwardly hostile to me and the subject of bicycling.
I followed Las Vegas Boulevard to Main Street and the Arts District before I stopped off at the art gallery that’s part of the “civic center,” some grass in the middle of Las Vegas city office buildings across from City Hall.
On the way over, I took this photo on the monorail overhead.
I never could understand all the utility poles in the middle of sidewalks in the Las Vegas area.
It was on to Circa and Container Park, which was built by the late visionary Tony Hsieh.
The weather was gorgeous this morning and it nice to bike on level terrain because there are so many hills where I live outside Blue Diamond.
The stadium photos will come in handy for LVSportsBiz.com stories and there’s nothing like meeting and talking with people you met only because you were riding a bicycle.
I can’t understand why so many people in Las Vegas are hostile to bicycles in this city.
It’s a rather joyful way to get around this place.